Science with the Murchison Widefield Array

被引:223
作者
Bowman, Judd D. [1 ]
Cairns, Iver [2 ]
Kaplan, David L. [3 ]
Murphy, Tara [2 ,4 ]
Oberoi, Divya [5 ]
Staveley-Smith, Lister [4 ,6 ]
Arcus, Wayne [7 ]
Barnes, David G. [8 ]
Bernardi, Gianni [9 ]
Briggs, Frank H. [4 ,10 ]
Brown, Shea [11 ]
Bunton, John D.
Burgasser, Adam J. [12 ]
Cappallo, Roger J. [13 ]
Chatterjee, Shami [14 ]
Corey, Brian E. [13 ]
Coster, Anthea [13 ]
Deshpande, Avinash [15 ]
deSouza, Ludi [2 ,10 ]
Emrich, David [7 ]
Erickson, Philip [13 ]
Goeke, Robert F. [16 ]
Gaensler, B. M. [2 ,4 ]
Greenhill, Lincoln J. [9 ]
Harvey-Smith, Lisa
Hazelton, Bryna J. [17 ]
Herne, David [7 ]
Hewitt, Jacqueline N. [16 ]
Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie [18 ]
Kasper, Justin C. [9 ]
Kincaid, Barton B. [13 ]
Koenig, Ronald
Kratzenberg, Eric [13 ]
Lonsdale, Colin J. [13 ]
Lynch, Mervyn J. [7 ]
Matthews, Lynn D. [13 ]
McWhirter, S. Russell [13 ]
Mitchell, Daniel A. [4 ,9 ,19 ]
Morales, Miguel F. [17 ]
Morgan, Edward H. [16 ]
Ord, Stephen M. [7 ]
Pathikulangara, Joseph
Prabu, Thiagaraj [15 ]
Remillard, Ronald A. [16 ]
Robishaw, Timothy [2 ,20 ]
Rogers, Alan E. E. [13 ]
Roshi, Anish A. [21 ]
Salah, Joseph E. [13 ]
Sault, Robert J. [19 ]
Shankar, N. Udaya [15 ]
机构
[1] Arizona State Univ, Sch Earth & Space Explorat, Tempe, AZ 85069 USA
[2] Univ Sydney, Sydney Inst Astron, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Milwaukee, WI USA
[4] ARC Ctr Excellence All Sky Astrophys CAASTRO, Redfern, NSW, Australia
[5] Natl Ctr Radio Astrophys, Pune, Maharashtra, India
[6] Univ Western Australia, ICRAR, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
[7] Curtin Univ, ICRAR, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
[8] Monash Univ, Monash E Res Ctr, Melbourne, Vic 3004, Australia
[9] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[10] Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Astron & Astrophys, Canberra, ACT, Australia
[11] Univ Iowa, Dept Phys & Astron, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[12] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Phys, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[13] MIT, Haystack Observ, Westford, MA 01886 USA
[14] Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[15] Raman Res Inst, Bangalore 560080, Karnataka, India
[16] MIT, Kavli Inst Astrophys & Space Res, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[17] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[18] Victoria Univ Wellington, Sch Chem & Phys Sci, Wellington, New Zealand
[19] Univ Melbourne, Sch Phys, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
[20] Domin Radio Astrophys Observ, Penticton, BC, Canada
[21] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Charlottesville, WV USA
来源
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA | 2013年 / 30卷
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
dark ages; reionisation; first stars; instrumentation: interferometers; radio continuum: general; radio lines: general; Sun: general; CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS; INTERPLANETARY SCINTILLATION OBSERVATIONS; ROTATING RADIO TRANSIENTS; GAMMA-RAY BURSTS; MAGNETIZED NEUTRON-STARS; FARADAY-ROTATION; 1.4; GHZ; ELECTRON-DENSITY; SOLAR-WIND; COSMIC REIONIZATION;
D O I
10.1017/pas.2013.009
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Significant new opportunities for astrophysics and cosmology have been identified at low radio frequencies. The Murchison Widefield Array is the first telescope in the southern hemisphere designed specifically to explore the low-frequency astronomical sky between 80 and 300 MHz with arcminute angular resolution and high survey efficiency. The telescope will enable new advances along four key science themes, including searching for redshifted 21-cm emission from the EoR in the early Universe; Galactic and extragalactic all-sky southern hemisphere surveys; time-domain astrophysics; and solar, heliospheric, and ionospheric science and space weather. The Murchison Widefield Array is located in Western Australia at the site of the planned Square Kilometre Array (SKA) low-band telescope and is the only low-frequency SKA precursor facility. In this paper, we review the performance properties of the Murchison Widefield Array and describe its primary scientific objectives.
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